“Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church. This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church” (Ephesians 5: 25, 32).
The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by the Creator. By its very nature, it is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as to the generation and education of Children. Christ the Lord raised marriage between the baptized to the dignity of a sacrament.
The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ and the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church. The grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on their way to eternal life.
Marriage is based on the consent of two capable contracting parties – on their will to give themselves each other the other, mutually and definitively, in order to live a covenant of faithful and fruitful love. Unity, indissolubility and openness to fertility are essential to marriage.
Couples wanting to be married at St. Mary’s or to have a Traditional Nuptial Mass celebrated must contact Fr. McGrath at least six (6) months prior to the proposed wedding date.
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St. Mary’s Latin Mass Community 